Michael Crichton

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1942 age 0

   Born

2. 1971 age 29

   CreditThe Andromeda Strainscreenwriter

3. 1973 age 31

   CreditWestworlddirector

   CreditWestworldscreenwriter

4. 1993 age 51

   CreditJurassic Parkscreenwriter

5. 1994 age 52

   CreditDisclosureproducer

   CreditDisclosurescreenwriter

6. 1995 age 53

   CreditCongoscreenwriter

7. 1996 age 54

   CreditTwisterproducer

   CreditTwisterscreenwriter

8. 1998 age 56

   CreditSphereproducer

9. 1999 age 57

   CreditThe 13th Warriordirector

   CreditThe 13th Warriorproducer

10. 2008 age 66

    Died

• KKKathleen Kennedy3 titles
• SJSamuel L. Jackson2 titles
• MKMichael Kahn2 titles
• PAPaul Attanasio2 titles
• JGJerry Goldsmith2 titles
• BLBarry Levinson2 titles
• SLStu Linder2 titles
• CRClive Russell1 title
• MTMary Ellen Trainor1 title
• RCRick Carter1 title

• Spouse

  • AMAnne-Marie Martin

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Carr was left with a ring, in the palm of his hand, a small gold circle, leading him nowhere.

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• They passed a farmhouse, a simple shack surrounded by animals — a lazy burro, clucking chickens, a litter of pigs. The farmhouse stood alone in the desolate landscape. There was no sign of a living person anywhere. And then it was gone, lost in the swirling dust plume of the car.

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Characterization lies at the heart of the impulse to polarize every issue — what we might call the Crossfire Syndrome. <br /> We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. <br /> The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms that ignore the real issues.

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• This polarization of the issues has contributed greatly to our national paralysis, because it posits false choices which stifle debate essential to change. It is ironic that this should happen in a time of great social upheaval, when our society needs more than ever to be able to experiment with different viewpoints. But in the media world, a previously established idea, like a previously elected politician, enjoys a tremendous advantage over any challenger. <br /> Hence the familiar ideas continue to be repeated, long past their demonstrable validity.

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  Michael Crichton, CC BY-SA 4.0